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Posted by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Tue May 02, 2006 at 12:49:48 PM EST

Once you get past the partisan sniping (and could we please have some kind of a moratorium on partisan sniping whenever public officials write editorials?), this Joe Biden piece make a lot of sense and fits in with my own belief that Iraq ought to be partitioned. It won't happen, of course; we have accepted as a prerequisite of success the belief that Iraq ought to remain intact. Other than historical slovenliness, there is nothing to recommend this normalization of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, but there you have it.

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Say It With Me: "Partition" | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)

Possible Partition Problems (none / 0) (#1)
by chsw on Tue May 02, 2006 at 01:46:21 PM EST

PY, what do you think would happen if Iraq is partitioned? In particular, what would Turkey, Syria and Iran do if an independent Kurdistan with oil resources? Partitioning Iraq might not only lead to a wider war (which may not necessarily be a bad thing). What might occur in the Arab tribal areas bordering the south Shi'ite Iraq (from both Iran's Arabistan and the Arab states to the south and west)? However, the major question concerns the US - will the US be willing to expend more blood and money in this part of the world?

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: All good questions . . . (none / 0) (#2)
by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Tue May 02, 2006 at 11:54:00 PM EST

I don't pretend to have a crystal ball with which to answer them. It does seem to me that Turkey may not mind the creation of an independent Kurdistan as much as people think since it might relieve pressure on Turkey to give away its own land to the creation of a Kurdish state. And I certainly don't think it is a given that we will have a wider war as a result of partition. If anything, it may become more peaceful as a result.
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." --Friedrich Nietzsche
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